Bellsquarry Primary School

It has been a monumental week in Primary One as we have finished all of the regular Jolly Phonics sounds.  We cannot believe how quickly time has gone!  The children have learned their sounds very well but should continue to practise at home to maintain and be ready for reading books in the new year.  The pupils have been doing super work with their word boxes and are reliably and responsibly returning them each day.  Thank you to parents for your support in making this happen.  The next step for us is to learn the alternate spellings to some of the sounds that we already know.

We also spent a lot of time this week, doing our mental maths.  Pupils were counting with rekenreks and number fans.  Our focus was number bonds to ten should you choose to work on these at home.  We are finishing off data handling tasks in our workbooks.

Nativity rehearsals will continue to increase and intensify over the next three weeks so we would ask that all the pupils learn the song words ready for performance.

We wish you all a lovely weekend as we watch the snow fall outside our window.

In maths and number we did some Thinking of a Number sheet which was quite difficult and did work on the Ipads. For homewotk this week we had to find out information about one Nocturnal Animal. We also were practising for our Nativity, songs and scripts.

The mushrooms have grown and one is massive!

Today we were at assembly celebrating Children In Need.

The Yellow table were the table of the week, well done!

We were also working hard at our Spelling Test today.

Primary One has been working diligently on their sounds and blending this week.  They are all very excited to be taking word boxes home each evening Monday through Thursday.  Well done to parents and caregivers who are ensuring that boxes are read and returned each day!

The pupils have also begun to focus on writing a sentence which includes differentiating between sounds and words as well as being able to explain what a sentence is.  They are doing incredibly well at this already.  If children are writing at home, they are most welcome to bring it into class to share with their teachers and peers.

It was a pleasure to see all of the parents at parent consultations.  We are grateful for your continued support and partnership as we work together to provide the best possible education for your children.

Well done to Primary 3 for an outstanding ‘Children in Need’ assembly.  Primary One thoroughly enjoyed it!  The pupils looked fantastic in their bright, spotty and Pudsey gear.  The donations were much appreciated.

Have a lovely weekend!